Senate roll call 417 · 45th Congress · Feb 12, 1879
To amend a resolution relative to S. 1591, a bill providing additional accomodations for the library of Congress. The resolution provides that the said bill be
On Feb 12, 1879, the Senate voted 49–11 (S 1591). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 23–7, Democrats 26–4. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 11 members voted against their own party.
During the 45th Congress (1877–1878), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 49
- No
- 11
- Did not vote
- 22
- Date
- Feb 12, 1879
By party
- Republicans23 yes · 7 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Democrats26 yes · 4 no · 8 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted no
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI voted no
- William Windom R-MN voted no
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE voted no
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH voted no
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted no
- James Donald Cameron R-PA voted no
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted no
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- David Davis I-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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